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I vaguely remember it - Warnock probably didn't think he was good enough in the air.
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...in 2019 for 7million:-
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...klopp-26131104
The claim is City - then in the Premier League - did not push the deal through and Porto later came in and took the player:
"It turned out to be a huge missed opportunity by Cardiff as Diaz would excel for his two-and-a-half years in Primeira Liga, becoming a £50m player in the process.
Liverpool will still feel they have got themselves a bargain as they paid significantly less than Porto's asking price, but it remains a massive 'what if' for the Bluebirds as they currently sit just outside the relegation zone in the Championship."
Anyone remember this?
I vaguely remember it - Warnock probably didn't think he was good enough in the air.
It's more likely that we'd have played him out of position, got him to train with the under 23's, made him feel homesick and sold him back for a loss, than turn him into a £50m player.
It was reported at the time that Warnock couldn't see how he could keep both him and Gary Madine in the same side given their similarities.
Didn’t track back enoughOriginally Posted by the other bob wilson
Not got time to click on the link, but I remember a story about him and where he was brought up, how they thought he was malnourished in training etc and had to battle to get where he is now..
Its a good read. Someone posted it on here a few months back I believe.
Maybe Josh Murphy isn't the player a few of us hoped he could be, but does anyone wonder how he might have turned out had he not had the ups and downs of Cardiff city and played week in week out in a team what didn't want him playing as a RB and a winger.
Dont most of the top teams demand a lot from their players?
Thinking of the best teams and they all have work rate that put most to shame.
It's hard to say, I'm sure around better players he could have shown more but I think there is a reason he hasn't gone on to show his transfer value and a reason no one has ever come in for him and it isn't because he has had to track back.
Never the same player after Warnock. Seen glimpses under Harris but the fact he went to Preston and his old coach at Norwich never really fancied him makes you wonder if he will ever get his career back on track at this level.
yeah we have ruined him as a player. I wonder where he'll go next
I didn't mention hard work fella
I was referring to the way he wasn't fancied by Warnock because he couldn't get up and down and put in a shift as a RB as well as look a threat on the front foot. Nobody is saying he shouldn't be able to track back and help out, and be left alone to stand up the pitch waiting to attack, and only ever attack, but I think the way it went for him here really hindered him and we won't see the same player again. Shame.
Sad isn't it. Why sign him, baffles me tbh. Wasted money and ruined a player.
My dml detector is going off, I'm off out the door to take the nephew to school and walk the dog before he arrives with a bang.
We would have ruined him anyway
I don’t think he was that good to begin with. His twin is the same. Norwich fans said he was wildly inconsistent, and he’s proved to be. Now he can’t stay fit.
Genuinely amazed the crack troops of the CCFC Transfer Committee, VT, Dalman, Ken, ‘our Neil’ together with some help from Warnock’s boy James, the lads at USM, Warnock’s pal Chief Scout Glyn Chamberlain AND our extensive overseas scouting network couldn’t get this one over the line.
Apparently this led to Cardiff pulling out of the deal as they felt he had suffered enough.
was the issue he wasn't represented by USM though ? ? ?
Why would they want this player ...when they can get pack from half a mile down the road.
Why sign a winger when you can get a CM..
It does at least show we have/had a scouting network if we were picking someone from out from Colombia. That policy seems to have been shelved while we deal with being a crap championship team.
that's the part I find hardest to believe
Amazing?
Murphy played much more frequently for us under Warnock than he did under Harris and McCarthy.I didn't mention hard work fella
I was referring to the way he wasn't fancied by Warnock because he couldn't get up and down and put in a shift as a RB as well as look a threat on the front foot. Nobody is saying he shouldn't be able to track back and help out, and be left alone to stand up the pitch waiting to attack, and only ever attack, but I think the way it went for him here really hindered him and we won't see the same player again. Shame.
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